New episode of Gameservatory! Exploring player agency and volition through the Remedyverse. From Alan Wake to Control, to Alan Wake 2; join me as we take a dive into Remedy's design ethos and how it has refined across each successive title. youtu.be/Lb8-xv_yIeA?...

One of these days I'll regale y'all with all the absolute shenanigans the last 24 hours have been, but for now- wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew

Hitting every technical issue to publishing this video, y'all 🙃. Even if it's midnight, it's coming!

Reached the "Is this real? Is this anything? What am I doing??" stage of polishing this video for tomorrow. It's not self-deprecation, more like no longer seeing a word for its meaning, but for its symbols. I'm so ready to be done, but looking forward to revisiting in a year & seeing what it became.

this holiday season has one more [ gift/offering/preoccupation ] to give... youtu.be/C0qvejqyzFU?...

@daryltalksgames.bsky.social showing how the sausage gets made creating videos: the pitfalls, anxieties, life lessons learned and the ghosts left behind (or not?). A heartwarming video about games, but not just games. Check it out! youtu.be/qx-lewDijRE?...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

It has been zero days since there were no mistakes, only happy accidents.

There's a sequence in my next video that I cut to save time (lol), but having watched it all the way thru, was sorely missing. So I dragged out my camera, keyed the footage, and staged the 3D scene in a midnight frenzy. I'm so glad I did; I think it's my favorite shot. Preview of the scene geo 👀:

Yessssss. This makes me so happy to read.

One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:

Last night's biggest surprise was Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, led by Casey Hudson, who directed KOTOR (and Anthem). Exciting news for lots of people... but Lucasfilm says the studio was founded this year, which means that 2030 is an *optimistic* guess. Maybe it'll be a PlayStation 7 game

I think these awards felt especially boring because categories like Best RPG and Best Indie each honor overall quality among a subset rather than a specific craft. If a game is the best of the year, and it’s an RPG, obviously it is also the best RPG. Needs an overhaul to avoid pointless repetition

Sometimes the pre-installed calculator app gets stuck updating on my win10 pc. Microsoft, what's going on bub? You alright?

I know I missed the Bugonia discourse by a few months but Alicia Silverstone.

2025 marked our 10 year anniversary of starting the channel so to celebrate we're doing a special livestream with our friends over at @forcecenterpod.bsky.social (also celebrating 10 years!) TODAY December 8th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET!

At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs. There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

IT’S HAPPENING! The original theatrical version of Star Wars is coming to theaters in 2027: youtu.be/qfXvdFcvhNY?...

This has been a great year for the engine, but there are still a lot of things we would love to do. If each person visiting our website donated €5, we could hire 5 more developers to work on Godot full-time. 👉 fund.godotengine.org

Oh hell yea. Bring back manageable file sizes industry wide 🤞 store.steampowered.com/news/app/553...

Great primer on the technology behind AI and why, in its current iteration, it is mind-numbingly criminal, socially irresponsible, and environmentally detrimental. Stick it in your brain through your head holes. youtu.be/ERiXDhLHxmo?...

The X-Files is genuinely a timelessly good show, because when not focusing on overarching conspiracy plot, they would really just focus on a single concept and quite crucially, it would cast an incredible actor to center the episode around who would be utterly god damn captivating to watch.

How it started; how it's going. (I can't wait to get this video out 🫠)

Oo yess this is a good one folks. @aranock.bsky.social talking about the unique nature of completely experiencing an artworks that require effort (e.g. games), friction vs accessibility in that effort, & what it means to find fun in frustration. Don't miss it! youtu.be/3jAPOqcDKeQ?...

But can I eat it?

Whipped up a quick black hole this afternoon. Which is a cool thing to be able to say.

Ending my thoughts on this with: we should be designing in ways that encourage our audience to think and experiment and a lot of these choices are often made for us by those higher up in the chain so… there is definitely work to be done.

If you were a hotdog, would you eat yourself? I know I would.

If I became God, besides all the obviously important stuff, the second thing I'd do is disappear leaf blowers from the timeline. The levels of sudden irate fury hearing one is indescribable.

Dispatch coming out in episodes appears to have been a very good strategy for developer Adhoc Studio. Astounding numbers here. Episodic games often risk losing audience attention over time but 8 episodes across 4 weeks seems like the perfect cadence to keep players hooked and talking

So reddit and discord replaced forums, but did anything else? Not sure if this is an "im old" question or a "i get laid" question 🤔

This Ben Solo news is frustrating. youtu.be/vqeUUaPBFEE?...

Made a quick teaser trailer for The Final Author, a new episode of Gameservatory dropping in November, where I explore the nature of player agency, the difficulties of game development, and @remedygames.com evolving design approach from Alan Wake to Alan Wake II. youtu.be/X9GdUbkn7uo

EA's bombshell deal to go private could be good for investors, but bad for employees. Leveraged buyouts almost always lead to immediate mass layoffs, and more than half of EA's current cash flow will likely go toward servicing the debt. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A lot of people are (understandably) focused on the Saudi Arabia and Kushner part of this, but the far bigger immediate impact will come from the new private EA being on the hook for $20 billion in debt. That could mean mass layoffs, more aggressive monetization, and other big cost-cutting measures

me: the witchcraft allegations around technical art are kinda overblown also me: The answer I've been searching for resides in precise constellations of these very circles

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Join the Threshold Kids ✨ You can now own all the episodes of Threshold Kids, plus one rejected episode, on VHS! Playable in a VCR and available via @iam8bit.com Get your pre-order in before 22 September at https://bit.ly/8bit-remedy-30th and NO INTERRUPTIONS! #RMD30

Channel progress update! www.patreon.com/posts/state-...

Why is this so funny?

Mini-maps and inventory economies hold action rpgs back more often than not. Or maybe I don't really care for them and wanna make that feeling sound more important than it is.

Oh I haven't watched Battlestar since college.

< Do y0u think this vintage Windows '98(.00000001) developer cap makes Former look ##%#? >

maybe just don't? why are people pretending we couldn't make games before AI came along

#DragonAge 's central themes, imo, is "what will happen, happens. Why it goes about that way makes all the difference". And "the histories we tell, the ones that last, is where our collective will is most free." I've been thinking about this a lot because it kinda feels true.

Unreasonable schedule constraints are a mainstay of game development crunch culture, but they don’t only come down from suits on high. Sometimes they are exacerbated by too many good ideas competing in pre-production 😵‍

Tepid #Unity take: double-clicking scenes should open them additively by default.

Give me one margarita and I’ll saw off my leg!

These are the engines used to make 9,724 games for the GMTK Game Jam in 2025! 1️⃣ Unity - 41% 2️⃣ Godot - 39% 3️⃣ Other / No Engine - 11% 4️⃣ Game Maker - 5% 5️⃣ Unreal Engine - 4%